Science Tech Culture Scientists engineer ultra-hard synthetic diamond from graphite The lab-made diamond features a unique hexagonal lattice structure By Shawn Knight, February 18, 2025, 4:04 PM
Hardware Electronics E6 unveils copper-diamond composite for next-gen thermal management Cost will be a huge factor By Shawn Knight, January 27, 2025, 3:06 PM
Science Electronics Scientists develop battery with 5,000+ year lifespan by encasing radioactive carbon in diamond It could power electronics aboard space probes for centuries, among other things By Zo Ahmed, December 6, 2024, 9:11 AM 18 comments
Science Space Outrageous $200 trillion climate hack proposes blasting diamonds into the atmosphere Sprinkling diamond dust to reflect sunlight off the planet By Zo Ahmed, October 25, 2024, 7:41 AM 37 comments
Science Space Mercury has an 11-mile thick diamond layer between its core and mantle Similar diamond layers could exist in other terrestrial planets By Skye Jacobs, July 21, 2024, 3:23 PM 12 comments
Science Tech Culture Researchers achieve data storage breakthrough using diamond defects Storing data in a sparkly new way By Husain Parvez, December 8, 2023, 9:52 AM
Hardware CPU makers are experimenting with alternative substrates to double clock speeds Engineers tripled speeds on an Nvidia chip using a diamond substrate By Shawn Knight, November 6, 2023, 4:14 PM 17 comments
Hardware Industry Japanese researchers cut semiconductor wafers from diamonds with a new laser technique Diamonds could replace silicon for some hi-tech applications By Alfonso Maruccia, August 4, 2023, 9:19 AM 8 comments
Trivia Tech Culture Trivia: Nvidia's first graphics card was released in 1995, what did the "complete" package include? Developed collaboratively between Nvidia and Sega, the 1MB Diamond Edge 3D shipped in 1995 for $249.99 By TechSpot Trivia, November 18, 2022, 11:15 AM
Hardware Science This pocket-sized diamond wafer could store up to 25 exabytes Or as much as 1 billion Blu-ray discs By Tudor Cibean, May 1, 2022, 2:37 PM 20 comments
Mobile Diamonds could be key to indestructible smartphone displays The first diamond-strengthened smartphone will hit the market in 2019 By Shawn Knight, February 5, 2018, 4:00 PM 10 comments